10 Worst Times Movie Actors Were Combined With CGI

8. Dwayne Johnson - Central Intelligence

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Central Intelligence opens with a flashback scene set in 1996, showing Calvin (Kevin Hart) and Robbie (Dwayne Johnson) in high school. Here, the de-aging tech used on Hart is flawless, but the same cannot be said of his co-star.

To make Johnson look younger, the filmmakers superimposed his face onto someone else's body, resulting in a nightmarish creation that looks like Fat Bastard from Austin Powers did a Snapchat face-swap with The Rock. Johnson's facial features are too small for the giant fleshy base they're stuck on, and even worse, the skin tones don't match up perfectly, making the centre of his face appear a shade lighter than the rest in certain shots.

True, Central Intelligence is a comedy and this scene is played for laughs, so it's likely that the filmmakers wanted this effect to look bad, to make it funnier. Either way, it could've been sharpened up a bit.

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